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June 13, 2017

Minnesota school board votes 3-2 to keep book in the classroom

NEW LONDON, Minn. — Requests from citizens to have a book removed from the New London-Spicer School District curriculum have been denied....

News June 13, 2017 - 9:53pm

NLS votes to keep controversial book in the classroom

NEW LONDON — Requests from citizens to have a book removed from the New London-Spicer School District curriculum have been denied. In a...

News/local June 13, 2017 - 6:13pm

May 10, 2017

Parents request removal of book from NLS curriculum

NEW LONDON — Objections from several parents about the content of a book assigned to eighth-grade English students in the New London-Spicer...

News/local May 10, 2017 - 9:58pm

April 17, 2017

Carolyn Lange / Tribune
Josh Proehl, a junior at New London-Spicer High School, will present his research on developing a probiotic in turkeys at the International Science and Engineering Fair next month in California. He talked about his project last week with the NLS School Board.

Big-time science fair for NLS student

NEW LONDON — Josh Proehl's high school summer science project of searching for a natural probiotic by examining the good bacteria in turkey...

News/local April 17, 2017 - 7:02am

March 29, 2017

Low bids for two separate financial tools that will fund installation of a new outdoor track and artificial turf for the football field were approved Monday by the New London-Spicer School Board.

NLS approves funding for track and field projects

NEW LONDON — Low bids for two separate financial tools that will fund installation of a new outdoor track and artificial turf for the football...

News/local March 29, 2017 - 5:08am

March 15, 2017

New London-Spicer's Shea Oman scampers away on a fastbreak in the first half of 70-61 win Feb. 20 against Annandale. Oman finished with 16 points, seven assists and eight steals.

NLS game available via livestream webcast

The New London-Spicer girls basketball team open their 2017 trip to the Minnesota State Girls Basketball Tournament against Esko in a Class AA...

sports/prep March 15, 2017 - 11:12am

March 6, 2017

Briana Sanchez/ Tribune

Construction workers work on the new theater at New London-Spicer High School Wednesday. The high school is getting a new theater added to the school.

Building from the ground up: NLS construction project starts to take shape

NEW LONDON — For several months after the ground-breaking celebration in August, it was hard to see any progress at all on the $20.6 million,...

News/local March 6, 2017 - 4:34am

February 14, 2017

NLS takes action to improve sports facilities

NEW LONDON — The New London-Spicer School Board voted Monday to sell $585,000 in general obligation facilities maintenance bonds to finance the replacement of the running track and approved a contract to design, bid and build a new bus road and synthetic football field estimated...

News/local February 14, 2017 - 8:56pm

January 7, 2017

Tom Cherveny / Tribune file photo
Willmar received more than 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours back on Aug. 11. Streets, basements and businesses were flooded.

2016 Year in Review: Other top stories

Summer weather brought many storms The year started with the Winter That Wasn't — an El Nino weather pattern that brought uncommonly warm...

News/local January 7, 2017 - 6:10am

December 29, 2016

Daryl Ingalsbe of Spicer, and Deb Osborn Solsrud of New London.

Update: Photo gallery of Deb Solsrud, Daryl Ingalsbe and his plane

Here is a gallery of photos related to the Spruce Creek, Fla., Fly-In Plane Crash. The 2009 single-engine Epic LT plane involved in the crash...

News/local December 29, 2016 - 6:00am

December 28, 2016

A crane removes the plane that crashed in a front yard at Spruce Creek Fly-in. Daytona Beach News-Journal/Llyna Longa

Florida plane crash shocks New London and Spicer communities

WILLMAR — A plane crash that killed two people Tuesday night in Florida has rocked the New London and Spicer communitie

News/local December 28, 2016 - 7:36pm

NLS mourns loss of community leader in plane crash

NEW LONDON – The New London-Spicer School District is mourning the loss of a community member who was reportedly killed Tuesday in a Florida...

News/local December 28, 2016 - 4:29pm

December 14, 2016

This is an AstroTurf field at Lakewood (Colo.) Memorial Stadium in a company photo. AstroTurf is one of several artificial turf products being considered for the New London-Spicer School football field after the board voted Monday to approve installation of synthetic turf.

Submitted photo / AstroTurf

Turf's up! Synthetic turf approved at NLS

NEW LONDON — Synthetic turf will be installed next year on the New London-Spicer School football field. On a 6-1 vote Monday, the board...

News/local December 14, 2016 - 7:58am

December 2, 2016

Students in the Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities class participate in a discussion about the class Thursday with representatives of Sen. Al Franken at the MinnWest Technology Campus in Willmar. Pictured, from left, are Miranda Lang, an ACGC senior; Kali Jensen, a Willmar senior; Ashton Hedman, an NLS junior; and Wyatt Allen, an NLS junior; Ryan Thielen of Procore; Sara Carlson of the Willmar Area Community Foundation; and teacher Tyler Gehrking.

Linda Vanderwerf / Tribune

Franken's staff visits Willmar to learn about CEO program

WILLMAR — The Kandiyohi County CEO class could offer ideas for encouraging partnerships between businesses and schools, according to staff...

News/education December 2, 2016 - 8:00am

Carolyn Lange / Tribune file photo

The New London-Spicer School Board is considering replacing their turf football field with a synthetic turf.

NLS discusses health risks of synthetic turf

NEW LONDON — Concerns about potential health risks of synthetic turf were discussed Monday by the New London-Spicer School Board. The board...

News/local December 2, 2016 - 7:50am